PT and...go!
Jul. 26th, 2013 10:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miss_lucy21First PT appointment went well. Except for me misreading the damn map and not double-checking with directions (the office is in the neighborhood I work in and I'm pretty familiar with it, so I figured I knew where it was. Turned out that I did know it once I figured out it was on the other side of the main intersection than the side I thought it was on...).
I have no problems with my actual hip/leg strength. The strength tests weren't even hard. I do, however, have extremely reduced flexibility due to extremely tight hamstrings and other muscles (which was not a surprise) and hyper mobility in a vertebra in the middle of my back, probably because either there is some sight disk problem that's irritating the nerves around it or because everything below that point is locked up tighter than Ft. Knox or both. Basically, I hinge at a point right above my hips and there really ought to be more even mobility and more mobility lower down. So we're going to be doing a lot of flexibility work to unlock my lower body and core strengthening to combat the hyper mobility. I admit to being mildly skeptical about the flexibility work, because nothing I've ever done on my own has really resulted in more flexibility, but maybe the therapist has different methods (I'm not skeptical about core strengthening- I know I need that, I just wasn't sure how to accomplish it safely, given that all the core exercises I know result in the bad kind of pain).
So I have 3.5 exercises I'm supposed to do every day (it's really 4, but two are variations on each other depending on whether I have the ability to get down on the floor or not, which I kind of don't at work. That one is supposed to happen every other hour. I imagine I'll have to set an alarm because there's no way in hell I'll not get distracted and forget). I can deal with that. I go back on Wednesday and we'll see what's in store at that point (so long as it doesn't involve the eletro-stim unit, I'm sure I'll live. I hate the electro-stim unit. I suspect it is in my future, mostly because I hate it).
I have no problems with my actual hip/leg strength. The strength tests weren't even hard. I do, however, have extremely reduced flexibility due to extremely tight hamstrings and other muscles (which was not a surprise) and hyper mobility in a vertebra in the middle of my back, probably because either there is some sight disk problem that's irritating the nerves around it or because everything below that point is locked up tighter than Ft. Knox or both. Basically, I hinge at a point right above my hips and there really ought to be more even mobility and more mobility lower down. So we're going to be doing a lot of flexibility work to unlock my lower body and core strengthening to combat the hyper mobility. I admit to being mildly skeptical about the flexibility work, because nothing I've ever done on my own has really resulted in more flexibility, but maybe the therapist has different methods (I'm not skeptical about core strengthening- I know I need that, I just wasn't sure how to accomplish it safely, given that all the core exercises I know result in the bad kind of pain).
So I have 3.5 exercises I'm supposed to do every day (it's really 4, but two are variations on each other depending on whether I have the ability to get down on the floor or not, which I kind of don't at work. That one is supposed to happen every other hour. I imagine I'll have to set an alarm because there's no way in hell I'll not get distracted and forget). I can deal with that. I go back on Wednesday and we'll see what's in store at that point (so long as it doesn't involve the eletro-stim unit, I'm sure I'll live. I hate the electro-stim unit. I suspect it is in my future, mostly because I hate it).